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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 02:29 PM
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Cant say that I have really never read a book because I wanted to. The fist one that came to mind was where the red fern grows. I also like white fang and hatchet. I havent read a book from cover to cover since I graduated high school.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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So many many favorites. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich....a great book if you are a WWII history buff. The Nine Billion Names of God.....only 9 pages, so I guess more a story than a book. Generals Die in Bed And all of the classics that others have listed.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 02:41 PM
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Lots of good books mentioned, and I’ve read many of them. Some I read when I was younger didn’t seem to have the same impact when I read them years later. And like someone said, it’s easier to pick a list of best books than to pick the absolute best book you’ve read. So, I’m adding Lonesome Dove to my short list. And I’ll add The Forgotten Soldier, by Guy Sajer. That one was hard to forget.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Ferrol Sams. The Whisper of the River.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 03:10 PM
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Never Split the Difference. Chris Voss. It is a wonderful book if you are in business for yourself.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I'm considering downloading this to my Kindle. Thoughts?
"Big Girl Panties By Stephanie Evanovich A New York Times bestseller “with wit, heart, and intelligence” (Publishers Weekly): When her husband dies, Holly is at her lowest point — and her highest weight. Trainer Logan helps her get back into shape, but what happens when the rest of the world starts noticing her, too?"
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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These may not be the best of the best in literature, but they struck a chord with me and are my all time favorites; I have read them each several times:
Lonesome Dove The Old Man and The Sea Lions of Kandahar - had a friend that was in this battle (and in the book); he ended up with a pretty stout bounty put on him by the Taliban
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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The Time It Never Rained
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Even though it is one big long story, there are lots of stand-alone great stories, none are too long to keep up with, lots of action, compassion, friendship, love, etc, plus lots of history and logic.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I've read a lot of the ones mentioned here.
One of my favorites is still Catch-22
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 04:25 PM
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the Bible ...
but of other types of books ... The Ultimate Gift, Jim Stovall
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Killer Angles by Michael Shaara. Civil War book that really explained some of the main characters in the war.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Where the red fern grows. Yup I thought it was Green Eggs and Ham?
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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John Graves. Goodbye To A River. Thank me later... Yep. Anything John Graves wrote. "Tales from a limestone ledge" tugs at my heartstrings. John lived about 4 miles from me. I miss his storytelling.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I'm considering downloading this to my Kindle. Thoughts?
"Big Girl Panties By Stephanie Evanovich A New York Times bestseller “with wit, heart, and intelligence” (Publishers Weekly): When her husband dies, Holly is at her lowest point — and her highest weight. Trainer Logan helps her get back into shape, but what happens when the rest of the world starts noticing her, too?" Sounds terrible
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I’m with cbump regarding that Big Girl’s Panties book. If, however, there was a more titillating title (no pun there, so move along) I might be more open to seeing what it was all about.
And when ya say “big”, do ya mean big as in grown up, or big as in plus size? Don’t get me started again on hefty women dancing in their underwear on TV.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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02/10/21 10:01 PM
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Any of the books by Eve Ball or CL Sonnichen. Eve Ball's books are mainly about the Mescalero Apaches, CL Sonnichen's books are history books about the southwest, from West Texas through Arizona.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I'm considering downloading this to my Kindle. Thoughts?
"Big Girl Panties By Stephanie Evanovich A New York Times bestseller “with wit, heart, and intelligence” (Publishers Weekly): When her husband dies, Holly is at her lowest point — and her highest weight. Trainer Logan helps her get back into shape, but what happens when the rest of the world starts noticing her, too?" Sounds terrible Big noticer. You were the only one.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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The best book about hunting I ever remember reading was Peter Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass." It's about big game hunting in Africa.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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I read a LOT. MY two favorites, both of which Ive read at least 5 times are;
Unintended Consequences by John Ross The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Where the red fern grows. Bingo. Wilson Rawls. 5th grade. It set me on a path of an absolute passion for the outdoors. +1 only it was 6th grade for me. It’s amazing how “into” that book I got. Great story of a boy, his dogs, and hunting the woods with his Grandfather. I was lucky growing up in that I got to squirrel hunt a lot with mine. Wish I could do that again.
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Non Fiction---The Bible
Fiction--Flight of the intruder-Stephen Coonts
Sci Fi--The lost fleet series--Jack Campbell
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Re: Best book you ever read?
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Dont really have a favorite but ive read these few several times and they never get old.
"A River Runs Through It". By Norman Maclean "Good by to A River: By John Graves "Unintended Consequence's" By John Ross
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